But meanwhile..here's some scripture I base my belief on which God says not to do this.
Eze 6:8-9 (NIV) “...How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their IDOLS. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.”
2 Ki 17:15 (NIV) They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their fathers and the warnings he had given them. They followed WORTHLESS IDOLS and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do,” and they did the things the Lord had forbidden them to do.
1 Cor 12:1-2 (NIV) ...I do not wish you to be ignorant... somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to DUMB IDOLS.
Ps 97:7 (NIV) All who worship IMAGES are put to shame, those who boast in IDOLS.
2 Cor 6:16 (NIV) What agreement is there between the temple of God and IDOLS?.... For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Jonah 2:8 (NIV) “Those who cling to worthless IDOLS forfeit the grace that could be theirs.”
1 Jn 5:21 (NIV) Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. Ps 24:4 (NIV)..... He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an IDOL.
The key, friend, is “idol”. Until we understand what makes an idol an idol, the scripture does not apply - that’s the purpose of the illustration. If your definition of an idol is defiicient, your application of scripture is also.